Rayaki Ramen Cottman Philadelphia Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

• "The atmosphere is cool with all the anime murals."
• "Obviously the first thing that strikes you when entering this place is the artwork."
• "Full of anime decorated walls, figurines, and memorabilia."
• "The vibe is great. The art work is amazing."
• "The wall art is insanely awesome, the anime playing in the background was sick, music was top notch."
• "The interior design is amazing as you can see with the pictures."
• "The walls have really nice artwork. The place is clean. The staff is polite and very nice."

Cons:

• "Definitely more of just a hang out spot."
• "It’s a very gimmicky spot catering to anime fans, the food could just use a bit improvement."
• "This is a place for children to enjoy I don't think it's too much for adults."
• "It's cool to check out especially if you love anime or have siblings, nieces or nephews that do. But there are other restaurants within drive with way better tasting ramen."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was enchanting! The takoyaki were my favorite, an explosion of flavor."
• "I absolutely love the food at this place and can't recommend it enough!"
• "Spicy Miso was a lot better, more flavorful, good size chunks of meat, and tasty broth."
• "Delicious noodles, they have a good amount of options in the menu and at least all what we ordered was delicious."
• "Food was great, got the fries, 3 kinds of ramen and Gyudon."
• "Easily one of the best bowls of ramen I've ever had."
• "The food was delicious! Everything came out hot and tasted fresh."

Cons:

• "Everything was really really bland tasteless and just awful."
• "Wish I could give it more stars but food wasn’t that good at all ramen had zero flavor just spicy."
• "The entire dish was bland."
• "Everything was overpriced, undercooked."
• "But the ramen lacked the deep flavor I’m used to."
• "VERY mediocre food."
• "The ramen was really nasty and soggy. The flavor was disgusting."

Service

Pros:

• "Had three different servers come up to my table asking if everything was okay."
• "The staff was nice."
• "Service was great and fast."
• "The staff here was very sweet!"
• "The waiters are nice and you are greeted as soon as you walk in the door."
• "The staff was very good 👍."
• "Service is very similar to buffet style restaurants, nothing extraordinary but good enough to create an enjoyable experience."

Cons:

• "Their intentions felt like they were rushing me to finish my food."
• "Then with us being the only African American couple at the table they harassed us to leave a tip when the service was horrible."
• "The waitress slid the plates with our food over to us and we had to go to the front twice to put our order in."
• "The waitresses NEVER check on you or ask if you need anything."
• "Service was very sub-par."
• "The waitress was kind of rude."
• "I had to wave down a waitress every time from ordering to getting the check and everything in between."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices very good and with anime music and video playing around you, really sets the atmosphere."
• "They had Utz potato chips and everything was fairly priced."
• "On top of that the prices were extremely reasonable."
• "The bill only came up to $135 and nothing disappointed!"
• "We enjoyed our food and bubble tea."
• "Our food came out super fast too."
• "Staff is attentive and the wait for food is short."

Cons:

• "The drinks are a little too sweet (a bit too much condensed milk)."
• "There was barely any curry on my plate."
• "Price is a bit weird. For 2 small sliders it was 7 bucks."
• "The porkchop was so overfried and thin, it was super hard, and dry."
• "It’s over priced and generic and the food is bad."
• "I got popcorn chicken this visit and am shocked by the sheer audacity of the owners to put chicken nuggets on the menu and charge $6.50 for it."
• "The food was not good (ramen and curry both tasted like store bought/ instant foods)."